Barcelona La Rambla

Barcelona La Rambla

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2014-12-16

8.3Overall Score

La Rambla is a road in focal Barcelona, famous with sightseers and local people alike. A tree-lined walker shopping center, it extends for 1.2 kilometers (0.75 mi) joining Plaça de Catalunya in the core with the Christopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell. La Rambla structures the limit between the quarters of Barri Gòtic, to the east, and El Raval, to the west.

La Rambla can be packed, particularly amid the stature of the traveler season. Its prominence with voyagers has influenced the character of the road, with a move to asphalt bistros and keepsake booths. It has additionally experienced the consideration of pickpockets and, particularly towards its southern end, sex workers.

The Spanish artist Federico García Lorca once said that La Rambla was “the main road on the planet which I wish would never end.”